Privatization in Costa Rica: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis

摘要

This book provides an in-depth historical analysis of privatisation in Costa Rica, focusing on the efforts to privatise four public organisations. Instead of discussing privatisation in its ideological and theoretical context, the book looks at it from an empirical perspective. This approach has two benefits. Firstly, it avoids a cumbersome repetition of the theoretical arguments in favour and against privatisation, too often read by any researcher interested in Latin America. Secondly, by using a case study approach the author emphasises that privatisation has different implications depending on what is privatised, something often overlooked by both proponents and critics of privatisation.